Word: kamitatu
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...Disorderly Rabble." Out of nowhere came Cleophas Kamitatu, president of Léopoldville province and a Lumumba sympathizer. Exercising the one Western political gambit that every Congo politician has mastered, he called a press conference. To newsmen he denounced the colonel and threatened his expulsion from the region (expulsion is another political phrase that comes easily to the lips of all Congo politicians, but seldom results in any subsequent action). Mobutu's troops, he charged, were running wild in the city, staging raids and attacking the citizenry. Kamitatu warned that his own provincial police would take over if Mobutu...
Mobutu was prepared to laugh Kamitatu's words away, but to his chagrin the head of the U.N.'s Congo force backed up the provincial president. "Colonel Mobutu's army is a disorderly rabble.'' snapped Rajeshwar Dayal, announcing that U.N. troops would henceforth patrol the Leopoldville streets side by side with Kami-tatu's police. Indignantly, Mobutu collected a hundred soldiers and some Jeeps, rushed over to U.N. headquarters to protest. When he emerged, there were tears in his eyes. "The United Nations wants me to get out." he announced stiffly. Mobutu complained bitterly...